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3
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Young people make puppets out of recycled materials. They use their creativity to come up with a movable puppet that represents a character in their puppet play.
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Unit: Pitch In Philanthropic Puppet Project
Unit: Community Collaboration
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Learners come to a consensus about which issue to address. Students play a cooperative game that illustrates the concept of a partnership. Students identify the community organizations available in their neighborhood. With teacher help, learners make a plan for a service-learning project...
Unit: What Respect Means to Me
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Students examine how their understanding of respect evolved. This will be achieved by creating and completing a reflection/demonstration project that illustrates what respect for self, others, property and environment looks likes....
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Participants learn about different types of foundations and how they work toward improving the common good.
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Unit: My Water, Our Water
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Grades:
3
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Participants identify the impact of humans on lakes and rivers. They explore ways to take responsibility to protect the waterways.
Unit: Global Education: Why Learn? (K-2)
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K
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Children hear a true story about a woman who performs a brave act related to education for the common good. They identify the benefit shared by the whole community. They define philanthropy and common good....
Unit: Character Education: Responsibility (Grade 8)
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6
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8
The learners brainstorm the effects of taking responsibility and not taking responsibility around issues they care about.
Unit: Sacred Giving (Tzedakah) (Private-Religious)
Grades:
6
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8
Performance of the mitzvah of tzedakah is, ideally, a holistic part of life, not an activity to be performed when all others have been completed! This lesson offers a classic model of how that ideal was realized by one of our Sages, Rabbi Tanchum, and how our families might...
Unit: Tzedakah: How Can We Help? (Tzedakah) (Private-Religious)
Grades:
K
1
2
This lesson will help students learn the importance of helping people in need, and teach them to take an active role in helping others. It will allow the students to be aware of what kind of items and quality of items should be donated, how to communicate an idea to others by visual means...
Unit: Literacy for You and Me
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The purpose of this lesson is for students to deliver the books to the recipients and spend some time reading with their partners. Students return to class to reflect on their experiences and celebrate the impact of the service project....